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Conversation on the Underground

The panel for Conversation on the Underground includes one of Europe’s pioneers of improvised music, tenor sax player Peter Brötzmann, one of the world’s most uncommonly versatile and innovate drummers, Han Bennink, and New York downtown experimental drummer Brian Chase, best known as a member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Peter Brötzmann has exemplified European improvised music for over 40 years and participated in countless historic collaborations with a who’s who of fellow seminal artists including Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry.

Well known as a catalytic figure in the Australian experimental music and film scenes (organiser of Audiopollen, OtherFilm, Glee Club), Joel Stern cut his chops in the concept-heavy nonsense atmosphere of early 00’s London, collaborating with many of the Japanese and English artists connected to the ‘reductionist’ and ‘onkyo’ movements.

Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. He is probably best known as a member of the rock group Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a band that has toured extensively throughout the world and has been nominated for three Grammys.

For the first time, the Melbourne International Jazz Festival in association with The Wheeler Centre, presents Conversations, a series of panel discussion forums featuring leading musicians, journalists and industry chums who will explore topics relating to the social and creative space of jazz in the context of its rich history and ever-evolving development.

An audience Q&A session will follow each forum.

For more information of the 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival (May 1 to 8), visit www.melbournejazz.com, visit www.melbournejazz.com.).